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The Mountains of My Life

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 5:15:20 PST

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Published for the first time in English, The Mountains of My Life collects the classic writings of world-famous mountaineer Walter Bonatti, and tells the real story of the 1954 controversy over the events on K2 that changed his life. Bonatti is one of the greatest mountaineers of all time, a man who continually reset the benchmark of human possibility by ascending routes that others dared not e ...

Apathy for the Devil

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 5:00:31 PST

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Pitched somewhere between Almost Famous and Withnail & I, Apathy for the Devil is aunique document of this most fascinating and troubling of decades - a story ...

The Celestial Café

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:58:35 PST

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“The Celestial Café” is a collection of the diaries and thoughts of Stuart Murdoch, singer in the band Belle And Sebastian. They stem from the particularly un-rock and roll years of 2002-2006, and are subsequently very light on the subjects of drug taking, orgies and general debauchery.

The Boardman Tasker Omnibus

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:11:40 PST

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Slash

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:11:32 PST

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The long-awaited, never-before-told, no-holds-barred memoir from the legendary Guns N' Roses guitarist. Finally, all the lurid tales of sex, drugs and rock n' roll are revealed as Slash describes his incredible rollercoaster journey as part of the biggest rock band in the world, living life to the full in the 80s. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty lips. Thes ...

The Crystal Horizon

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:11:22 PST

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On 20 August 1980 Reinhold Messner reached the summit of Everest - alone and without the use of oxygen. This is an account of his extraordinary achievement. Messner describes his journey through Tibet and identifies with mountaineers who went before him, such as Mallory, Irvine and Wilson.

Eric Shipton

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:08:02 PST

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This is the account of one of the finest high altitude climbs yet achieved, the climbers, at the peak of their powers, climbed a major Himalayan face. On their return Scott and MacIntyre wrote this historic text.'

More Time for Politics

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:06:55 PST

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When Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years he quoted his wife Caroline's remark that now he would have 'more time for politics'. And so this has proved: in the first seven years of this century he has helped reinvigorate national debate through public meetings, mass campaigns and appearances in the media, passionately bringing moral and political issues to wide audiences. And throughout, as ev ...

Pretty Good for a Girl

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:06:50 PST

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The pioneering female snowboarder offers a provocative inside view of the sport that has made her a legend, providing a female perspective on life in ...

Boys of Everest

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:06:44 PST

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The Boys of Everest', which received enormous praise when published in hardback, tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing acheivement and heartbreaking loss. Their leader was the boyish, fanatically driven Chris Bonington. His inner circle -- they came to be known as ...

Mountains of the Mind

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:06:39 PST

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Why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? During the climbing season, one person a day dies in the Alps, and more people die climbing in this season in Scotland than they do on the roads. "Mountains of the Mind" pursues a fascinating investigation into our emotional and imaginative responses to mountains, and how these have changed over the last few centuries. It is ri ...

Ronnie

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:06:35 PST

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Ronnie Wood is one of rock's true originals. This is his story, in his own words, about his life, loves, family, friends, music, art and survival against the odds. It's a roller-coaster ride of unbelievable highs and unimaginable lows, from a small boy growing up on a working class council estate not far from Heathrow Airport who wanted to play music and paint - the first generation of his 'water ...

Just for the Love of It

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:06:29 PST

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"Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mt.Everest"

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:06:24 PST

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At the age of twenty-three, Bear Grylls became one of the youngest Britons to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty coping with the adverse effects of mountaineering. Nevertheless, only two years after breaking his back in a freefall parachuting accident, Bear Gry ...

Dear Boy

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:06:19 PST

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Keith Moon was more than just rock's greatest drummer, he was a phenomenal character and an extravagant hell raiser who - in a final, uncharacteristic act of grace - actually did die before he got old. This new edition includes a newly written After word that consiers Moon's lasting legacy, the death of John Entwistle and The Who's ongoing career in the new millennium. In this astonishing biograp ...

Powder

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:06:14 PST

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An everyday story of Rock 'N' Roll folk Keva McLuskey craves success. Other bands are making it big. His worst enemy is on MTV. And time is not on his side. Yet he's certain it's his destiny to be recognised among the great songwriters of our time. Without that approval, Keva can never confront his horrific past. That's why he formed The Grams. Jamie Love wants to revel in his sexual dark s ...

Scoring at Half-Time

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:04:47 PST

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Michael Parkinson: 'What was the nearest to kick-off that you made love to a woman?'George Best: 'Er- I think it was half-time actually'George Best was the first celebrity footballer and to many the greatest British player ever. In Scoring at Half-Time he gathers together his favourite memories, stories and anecdotes from his experiences in and out of the game over the last forty years. No dressi ...

Dark Shadows Falling

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:04:37 PST

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In 1992, an Indian climber was left to die on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched his feebly waving hand from their tent. He was filmed in his last hours for a television feature. Why did onlookers not hold the dying man's hand and comfort him? The answer appals Joe Simpson, who was himself left for dead in a cervasse in Peru in 1985 - 'because it might compromise their s ...